67’s 4, Storm 3 (OT)

The Ottawa 67’s clearly have designs on at least making it to the Memorial Cup tournament this season, and the Guelph Storm are one of the teams they’ll quite likely have to deal with along the way.

Back on Jan. 13 at home, the Storm, fresh from adding key pieces at the Ontario Hockey League trade deadline, made a bold statement with a decisive 8-4 victory over Ottawa.

The 67’s got a measure of revenge on home ice Friday night, but had to battle until the end in a see-saw affair at the TD Place arena. Kyle Maksimovich’s power-play goal with 51 seconds remaining in overtime finally decided it, boosting Ottawa’s record to 37-9-4 and dropping Guelph’s to 26-13-10.

Mitchell Hoelscher got Ottawa on the board just two minutes two seconds into the game, but Guelph’s Keegan Stevenson answered that with a goal at 3:17.

Stevenson’s second put the Storm ahead about seven minutes into Period 2, but it was then the 67’s turn to rally in the third period with goals by Marco Rossi at 7:05 and Noel Hoefenmayer, on the power play, at 12:07.

That lead lasted less than five minutes, as Guelph’s Nick Suzuki forced overtime with a power-play goal at 16:52.

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